Odbart Hartmann

Odbart Hartmann (9 January 1889-14 July 1965) was a General der Infanterie of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Odbart Hartmann was born in Neubrandenburg, Prussia, German Empire in 1889, and he enlisted in the Imperial German Army in 1907. He graduated from a military academy in 1911, and Hartmann served as a staff officer during World War I, seeing action on the Western Front against France and the United Kingdom. Hartmann remained in the newly-formed Weimar Republic's Reichswehr after the November Revolution of 1918, and he helped in the quelling of communist and Polish uprisings in Germany. Hartmann would join the Nazi Party in 1933 and rise to the rank of General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht, and he led the 46th Infantry Division on the border with Poland. He fought in World War II during the invasion of Poland and during the campaign against the Soviet Union, and he fought on the Eastern Front against the USSR. After the war, he was sent to a Soviet labor camp, and he was released in 1954. He died in 1965 in Frankfurt, West Germany.